PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down115cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1501arrow-down1imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareOutlierBluelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days ago We achieved boots on the moon (using metric AND the imperial system ;) Only the instruments for the astronauts displayed imperial units. All the science and engineering was done in metric.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoAnd much of the calculations were done by computers. And I mean the wonderful ladies that made spaceflight happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Area_Computers
Only the instruments for the astronauts displayed imperial units. All the science and engineering was done in metric.
And much of the calculations were done by computers. And I mean the wonderful ladies that made spaceflight happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Area_Computers